‘Free Beacon’ Montage: Obama’s Been Wrong on Foreign Policy for Five Years

Haunted (The Washington Free Beacon)

President Obama’s foreign policy prognostications are coming back to haunt him.

It’s bad enough now that the The New York Times wrote this Tuesday: “Time and again, he has expressed assessments of the world that in the harsh glare of hindsight look out of kilter with the changed reality he now confronts.”

Obama’s repeated declarations that “the tide of war is receding” and that he’s put “al Qaeda on the run” are shown now for that they were: flat-out wrong. The violent al Qaeda offshoot IS, dismissed once by Obama as a mere “jayvee team,” has taken over large parts of Iraq and Syria and brutally murdered two American journalists as a message to the United States